A prudent person foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and suffer -- Proverbs 22:3

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Gay To Play

I was busy doing something important -- painting the living room, I think, when Missouri played Oklahoma State in the Cotton Bowl this year, but, as noted here, my wife watched it. The Cotton Bowl victory was sealed when now-notorious Michael Sam brought down the OSU quarterback from behind (ha).

The truth is that Michael Sam was a good Division I college defensive end. Good. Ten times better than most of us could be but still not great. Michael Sam was never going to be drafted by the NFL even in late rounds. As a walk-on, he would have had no chance. The NFL gets to pick from the very best, most talented, gifted college athletes. There are hundreds of potential players vying for a handful of highly coveted openings on a mere 32 teams. A smattering of veterans exit the league every year for various reasons, but somebody is usually there to plug the hole. For a man to be drafted suggests that he might be able to play better than the men already lined up for that spot.

Michael Sam may have been the best homosexual defensive end in college football. Unfortunately for him, no team has, as yet, a roster spot for Gay DE. Each team wants the best available player for any given position regardless of their choice of roommates. The great Redskins' tight end, Jerry Smith, who played for Vince Lombardi and George Allen, was homosexual. He was not a great homosexual tight end (I'm sorry -- that was his position, and, yes, it means he was a catcher); he was a great player. Smith never admitted to being homosexual, but another gay football player of about the same era, running back Dave Kopay, confirmed what everybody knew after Smith's death from AIDS in 2005 1986 (no idea where I got 2005).

Men like Smith and Kopay and numerous other NFL-quality players had no need to make an issue of their homosexuality because they were gifted football players who would be drafted because of their skills and abilities. That was not the case with Sam. To even get a shot at the professional level, he needed a victim card that he could play in the event he was not drafted. Thus he publicly "came out of the closet" just in time to make it an issue on NFL Draft Day. The Rams took the hit for the league in the third round.

Quotables

The true Christian should not resign himself to the inevitable: he should trust in the impertinence of a repeated prayer. -- Don Colacho

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. -- Robert A. Heinlein

When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law -- Bastiat

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military. The hired servants of our rulers.

Only the government -- and a few outlaws.

I intend to be among the outlaws.--Edward Abbey from “The Right to Arms”

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